Hi Thomas

Hurray :-)

You guessed right - it now works with a full tcpip connection path

Oh well

'Their's not to reason why'

Thanks Thomas
Paul

>
> Hi Paul,
>
> > I have been trying to get the task scheduler in Win2003 server to make
> IB
> > backups.
> >
> >
> >
> > I have a .bat file which calls gbak - this can be run manually OK
>
> How does the gbak call look like?
>
> My guess is that you are using a local connection.
> If so, try to use a remote connection even if the
> database is local.
>